I went to a big Christmas lunch yesterday with a bunch of friends. Much food, much wine, much fun. But then someone near me started mouthing off about Climate Change being a scam and just went on and on about it being a hype, and how climate change was a fallacy… the whole nine yards. [...]
Yesterday I creamed News Limited for fake and political reporting, targeted at influencing the outcome of the iiNet trial currently underway. They used non-empirical data and ancient quotes from an misnamed organisation all designed to create FUD. Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. That’s what the media these days considers is what is necessary for [...]
(An indictment of Australian Television Programming that Wasn’t Written by Moi……) I was surfing today, about Australian IQ (ummm that would be Intelligence Quotient and not some Foxtel rubbish) and the Television watching habits of Australians, as you do and I came across something so honest that I immediately had to plagiarise it so [...]
Apologies in advance – this article uses an expression of Profanity for which there is no other suitable word available in the English language at this time in relation to politicians and their games in Parliament. If the “f” word offends – please leave this page now. There’s an old saying, “There are only two [...]
Translation Inventors are important. Without inventors, we would not know what time of the day it was. (Apart from Paul Hogan.) Visionaries are important too, without visionary explorers like Vasco de Gama and Captain James Cook, we would not be sitting on this huge rock called Australia – we would still be huddled around the [...]
Many will have noticed that my extremely popular Top 50/Top 200 P2P listing is conspicuous in it’s absence over the last two weeks. Have I stopped collecting the statistics ? Nope, I analyse them every night before I go to sleep. So why, you may ask, am I not publishing the results ? [...]
I am reading a fascinating book. It is called “The Age Of The Unthinkable – why the new world disorder constantly surprises us and what to do about it”. Written by Joshua Cooper Ramo. This book is like the Tipping Point (if you read that) of national security. Ramo discusses the way that in the [...]
Entrepreneurs create by breaking things. When I was about 6 years old, I got into my fathers 10lb Assorted Arnotts biscuit tin. They don’t make them any more – but made of tin, square, with a folding lid (about 450 mm high and 300 mm square, they were ideal for storing “things” in. [...]
The price of DVD’s and CD’s have steadily decreased over the last twenty-six years. I started a Video Store (Video World) in Darwin in 1982. Trying to obtain content was an interesting experience. Beta was available but VHS was yet to make its appearance outside Japan. My initial stock of 42 titles was Beta. e.g.: [...]
It is interesting to see how the entertainment sector is shaping up in Australia given the changing global market conditions. In December 2008 EzyDvd was put into administration close on the heels of Destra being put into receivership. Were they victims of the changing business environment globally, or were they victims of overreaching business ambitions [...]